pcHDTV HD-5500

[tleslie]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:48 -0400, Colin McGregor wrote:
> --- Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Apr 21, 2007 at 10:46:34AM -0400, Colin
> > McGregor wrote:
> > > I am looking at upgrades to my MythTV box, and one

> 
> - Just connect it to you regular local cable co.
> (i.e.: Rogers), where you can get the regular analog
> channels and a handful of digital channels, in analog
> channel quality.
> 
> - Connect the card to an HDTV antenna (either the
> likes of rabbit ear style in-house table top antenna
> or the big external tower antenna), modest number of
> channels, but all in (excellent) HD quality.
> 
> - Connect the card to a Rogers cable HD (or other
> firm's satellite HD) boxes. Excellent quality, lots of

Connect it how? if its a tuner, why connect it?
can it take in dvi / composite or firewire to capture
mpeg or raw video stream from a HD cable tuner/pvr device,
if this thing can record HD from a rogers box,
i.e. take down 1280x1080i to 1920x1080i well
i am buying one tomorrow! but I don't think it can?
Well, when I get a free minute I will go over spec's,
but if your sure, let me know.

-tl

> channels, but extra $ on a monthly basis and you have
> to sort out how to control the external box from
> MythTV (can be done, but it can become very messy).
> 
> So, interesting topic and one I want to keep an eye,
> as CURRENT word is that come Feb. 2009 (read just
> after the next US presidential election...) analog TV
> will disappear from US airwaves. How long after that
> Canada will follow suit, and further how long after
> that the cable companies will want to drop analog TV
> support all makes for some interesting questions...
> 
> So, those of us interested in MythTV type boxes will
> need to pay attention to Linux supported HD tuner
> cards (of which the HD-5500 currently appears to be
> the "gold" standard).
> 
> 
> Colin McGregor
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